Thoughts on Thoughts

In this episode, we share with you one of our favorite distress tolerance skills that we teach in therapy- radical acceptance. We discuss how to use radical acceptance to navigate times of stress, overwhelm and how to use this skill to reduce your mental load. This coping strategy can truly be a game changer!

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If you have ever wondered what starting therapy is like or what to expect in a first session with a therapist, we have all the answers for you in this episode! Hopefully this episode can give you a road map of sorts for how therapy starts and can ease any pre-first session anxiety you may be experiencing.

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Need something life giving, connecting and fun in your life? Well, self-care club has entered the chat! In this episode we tell you what a self-care club is (seems self explanatory but is it?) and give you ideas for how to get your own started. This is truly so FUN and we hope you love this idea just as much as we do!

If you want to hear our other episode on what we feel like the true definition of self-care is, you can find that here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EJiCDyplOoAVoXkhJw55b?si=dXRWakpYRBuhCIAWaIkXiw

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This is our first episode in a new miniseries dedicated to helping you reduce your mental load/emotional labor. The mental load is all of the invisible, back of the mind stress that we carry with us every day that can really take a toll on mental health. With this miniseries, we hope to give you real tools that can help you significantly reduce the mental load in your life. This first installment is about journaling. If you are not a fan of journaling, please don't write off this practice just yet! Give this a listen and we will hopefully give you some ways to do it that will work for you. We started this series with journaling because you have to get what is unconscious conscious- what is really holding you back from making changes in your life? We also talk about seasonal journaling which is a different (and pretty fun?) way of going about this.

Seasonal Journal Prompts:

What am I most excited about?

What am I already stressed about?

How can I mitigate/eliminate this stress?

What summer outfit do I feel great in?

What is something I can decide once?

What home task will I be least motivated to do?

How can I make this easier for myself?

What will I be glad I did or didn’t do?

What do I want the season to feel like?

Other journal prompts:

Brain dump

What would my ideal day look like? What do you want me to know today? What do you want me to feel today? What do you want me to do today? OR (taking out the higher power) What do I want to learn, feel and do today?

What is worth suffering for?

Imagine being the best possible version of yourself-what would bring you closest to being that person?

If social media didn’t exist and nobody would know what you were doing, how would you live differently?

What comes most naturally to you?

What would your ideal daily routine look like?

What do you want your legacy to be?

What do you need to do to arrive at your death bed proud of yourself?

Check in with yourself: 1. Physically, 2. Spiritually, 3. Mentally, 4. Socially What can I do to recenter myself? What are my priorities in this season of life?

If you want to learn more about the mental load before diving into this episode, here is our episode all about it- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thoughts-on-thoughts/id1437728376?i=1000430309948

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When it comes to mental health, sometimes we can get stuck on solely focusing on decreasing unhappiness instead of also doing things to increase joy and positive feelings. In this episode we give you some ideas for how to have a mindset shift that allows for increasing joy and happiness in your life.

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In this episode we share one of our favorite parenting tips! We are going to revisit the idea of being a thermostat instead of a thermometer when it comes to handling our kids' tantrums and struggles. This mindset shift has helped us immensely in our own parenting experiences and we hope it will help you as well!

This is the episode that we mentioned with Cristi Dame of 'The Playful Nest" that is also full of parenting helps! https://open.spotify.com/episode/752mYTyCHHslRb0FzVExdM?si=e1f61c2762234ebf

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Social media...we love it, sometimes hate it, gotta have it but often want to escape it! Social media can have a big impact on our mental health so we wanted to have a conversation about this with Heidi Robey! Heidi is a mental health advocate and comedian who uses content creation on TikTok, IG, FB and Youtube to share humor as well as her own personal experiences with mental illness. **Trigger Warning- this episode does contain topics surrounding suicide

In this episode you can expect to hear why we think social media can play a part in mental health struggles, how to have boundaries with phone use, how to navigate comparison/criticism online, and some tips for how to have a healthier mindset/approach around social media.

If you want to hear more from Heidi you can find her here:

IG- @hotmessheidirobey

Tiktok- @hotmessheidi

FB- Hot Mess Heidi

Youtube- @hotmessheidi

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In this episode we discuss how to support teenagers who are struggling with their mental health and how to help them build resilience. We are joined by Heather Ransom, LCSW, RPT. Heather is a licensed clinical social work and registered play therapist. She is EMDR trained (you know how much we love EMDR) and she works a lot with trauma, attachment, anxiety, and depression across the age spectrum. She just finished serving on the Missouri Board for Play Therapy for 5 years and we loved hearing all of her ideas and tips for building strong, supportive relationships with teenagers.

To learn more from Heather you can find her over on IG at @kindredcollectivecomo . If you live in Missouri and are interested with meeting with Heather for therapy you can get in touch with her at [email protected] .

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In this episode we have the opportunity to talk with Joni Lybbert! Joni is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and the host of "The Sad Moms Club" podcast and she is an expert in postpartum and maternal mental health. We chatted about recurrent struggles postpartum and in motherhood in general and how we navigate those struggles with our clients and in our own lives.

If you would like to hear more from Joni you can find her here:

Podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sad-moms-club/id1651734468

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/the.sad.moms.club/

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Let's chat about how to have difficult conversations! We talk about how to navigate setting boundaries and being emotionally flooded while having hard conversations with others Are you feeling pressured to respond to people who are trying to have hard conversations over text? We've got some thoughts on that.